Posts by admin

DEQ.abbr.DELIVERED EX QUAY. [Blacks Law 8th]

deputy sheriff.See SHERIFF. [Blacks Law 8th]  

deputy,n. A person appointed or delegated to act as a substitute for another, esp. for an official. [Cases:  Officers  and  Public  Employees    47.C.J.S.  Officers  and  Public  Employees  §§  350–351, 353.] — deputize, depute,vb. courtroom deputy.The deputy clerk assigned to a particular courtroom or a particular judge. general  deputy.  1.  A  deputy  appointed  to  act  in …

depute,n. Scots law. A person appointed to act in an official capacity or as another official’s representative. [Blacks Law 8th]

depublished opinion.See OPINION(1). [Blacks Law 8th]

de           proprietate           probanda           (dee           pr<<schwa>>-prI-<<schwa>>-tay-tee pr<<schwa>>-ban-d<<schwa>>),  n.[Law  Latin  “for  proving  property”]  Hist.  A  writ  ordering  a sheriff  to  investigate  the  ownership  of  distrained  goods  claimed  by  a  defendant  in  a  replevin “If therefore the distreinor claims any such property, the party replevying must sue out a writ de  proprietate  probanda,  in  which  the  sheriff  is…

de  procedendo  ad  judicium  (dee  proh-s<<schwa>>-den-doh  ad  joo-dish-ee-<<schwa>>m), n.[Law  Latin  “for  proceeding  in  an  assize”]  Hist.  A  chancery  writ  ordering  a  lower  court  to proceed  to  judgment  in  a  case  that  had  been  wrongfully  stayed.  •  If  the  lower-court  justices refused, they could be punished for contempt. [Blacks Law 8th]

Deprizio  doctrine.Bankruptcy. The rule  that  a  debtor’s  payment to  an  outside  creditor  more than 90 days before a bankruptcy filing is voidable as a preferential transfer if it benefits an inside creditor. Levit v. Ingersoll Rand Fin. Corp. (In re V.N. Deprizio Constr. Co.), 874 F.2d 1186 (7th Cir. 1989). [Cases: Bankruptcy    2608(2). C.J.S. Bankruptcy…

deprived child.See CHILD.

deprivation.  1.  An  act  of  taking  away  <deprivation  of  property>.2.  A  withholding  of something <deprivation  of  food>.3. The state  of being without something; wanting <deprivation from  lack  of  food>.4.  A  removal  or  degradation  from  office,  esp.  an  ecclesiastical  office <deprivation of the bishop>. Cf. DEPOSITION(4); DEGRADATION(1). [Blacks Law 8th]